[NAGDU] how fetching.

[Lisa Belville]

Dan, I heard the Seeing Eye taught fetching for years but many of the 
trainers found the physical demands of teaching fetch too taxing.  It could 
also be that it took time away from training other things as Cindy said.

Ironically, all three of my dogs, while retrievers don't like to do a 
traditional fetch.  Paige loves getting her Kong when I throw it, but 
getting her to give it back is still an iffy proposition.


Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com
IF THE HOUSEWORK IS DONE - THEN THE COMPUTER IS Broken!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Weiner via NAGDU" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Cc: "Dan Weiner" <dcwein at dcwein.cnc.net>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 5:06 AM
Subject: [NAGDU] how fetching.


> Hello, beautiful people.
>
> I have a question, weren't guide dogs trained at one time to fetch, or to 
> be more precise, to retrieve fallen objects. One of my best friends had a 
> guide dog I remember a long  time ago that did it, and quite well 
> actually.
>
> So when did the fetch command stop being used, is it still being trained 
> anywhere, and how feasible would it be to work on training a current guide 
> dog to do this?
>
>
> I doubt I will actually follow through with the last part of that---lol 
> but it does sound like a useful skill to have..
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Dan the man'
>
>
>
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